THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court says the trial of former Congo militia leader Bosco Ntaganda will start in July, weighing charges including murder, rape and using child soldiers. The court set the date Tuesday, a day after rejecting the idea of beginning the case in the Democratic Republic of Congo, saying […]

ALFRED — The woman police believe was stabbed to death by her grandson wrote in a letter the month of her death that the grandson needed to move out. Derek Poulin, 26, is currently on trial for arson and intentional, knowing or depraved indifference murder. He has been accused of stabbing and beating his grandmother, […]

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has suspended the press credentials of the Vatican columnist for the Italian newsweekly L’Espresso, which published a leaked draft of Pope Francis’ eagerly awaited encyclical on the environment. A letter to Sandro Magister from the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, advising him of the sanction was posted on […]

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s prime minister says he has undergone a “complicated” knee operation abroad following questions about his whereabouts. Victor Ponta, who is a suspect in a corruption probe, previously announced he had left deputy Prime Minister Gabriel Oprea in charge until Friday, without saying why he was not in Bucharest. On Tuesday […]

You know it is summer in Maine when the sweet scented beach roses ”“ rosa rugosa ”“ are in bloom, like this pretty one in Kennebunkport on a recent weekday.